Re: P2P wave progress

2014-01-02 Thread Joseph Gentle
Yeah that was a longer email than I was expecting to write. Its fine - less bike shedding this way. The tech tree forks out here - there's (at least) 4 things to do next: - Get the net protocol working. Current version is local only. - I'd like to see it fast. Either rewrite the text-tp2 code to

Re: P2P wave progress

2014-01-02 Thread Thomas Wrobel
Thanks for tacking the time to explain that, that's really helpful to me. Sorry to have interrupted your original query. It does sound a distinct improvement and looks like you have put a lot of work into implementing it. Whats the next steps from here? ~~~ Thomas & Bertines online review show:

Re: P2P wave progress

2014-01-02 Thread Joseph Gentle
Peer-to-peer is a super overloaded term. It refers to somewhat symmetric peers communicating with each other directly instead of clients all talking to a central server. It gets overloaded to refer to anything that doesn't fit the classic client-server model. P2P systems usually have mechanisms fo

Re: P2P wave progress

2014-01-02 Thread Thomas Wrobel
Excuse my ignorance in this, but can you briefly explain what "p2p" means in this context. I have only heard it used in the likes of torrent systems and such - the idea of a pure client system with no servers. Peers finding eachother with no server telling them who's where. A desktop wave applicat